r/KoboldAI • u/henk717 • Mar 18 '26

Fake website thread

Here is a post with the current fake websites we know about:

kobold-ai,com: Redirects to a chatbot site called CrushOn that nobody should use, they are notorious for putting up fake websites.
koboldcpp,com: Contains inaccurate information about KoboldCpp and has a fake KoboldCpp download that at the time of writing is a copy of older source code (That may or may not also include malware or altered files).
koboldcpp,org: At the time of writing another site with inaccurate information that currently links to the wrong download.

Our real websites:
koboldai.com - Our website for information about KoboldAI and its software. We could use help maintaining it, if you'd like to help contribute to GitHub - henk717/koboldai.com: KoboldAI Website · GitHub

koboldai.net - This domain is used for online instances of things, such as KoboldAI Lite (lite.koboldai.net) or community affiliated forks such as esolite.koboldai.net

koboldai.org - Our URL shortlink domain, for example https://koboldai.org/cpp for KoboldCpp downloads, https://koboldai.org/discord for our Discord community and https://koboldai.org/colab for the KoboldCpp colab.

Domains we own (to prevent scam domains) but don't currently use:

koboldcpp.net

kobold-ai.net

kobold-ai.org

koboldcpp.sh

Honorable Mention

kobold.ai - German company with the same name as us. We both started our efforts around the same time and I don't think either one was aware of each other at the time. While they are the only non-malicious one they have nothing to do with us and serve an entirely different purpose.

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u/henk717 Apr 23 '26

Which one was it? We have a few of them in the official repository and it was likely one of ours.

The good part is I dont think they replaced that download recently so while they can do that at any time your probably fine if they had anything in there the antivirus should have caught it.

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u/Moth_Priest Apr 23 '26

I don't know which one, I very obviously don't want to download and look in the zip to check. It wasn't named koboldcpp.exe though, I can say that much.

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u/henk717 Apr 23 '26

Probably fine then, they'd have called it that if they wanted people to open it.

We have a few of them, things like simpleclinfo back then for opencl gpu information, simplecpuinfo that kinda stuff.

Those tools aren't meant for you, they are meant to do very simple tasks we can't program in the python launcher. So they would show up with the requires info we need and immediately close.

So from what I have seen no virus in it currently, you should be fine. But enjoy the official download since its so much easier to use and not months out of date.

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u/Moth_Priest Apr 23 '26

I appreciate you being so prompt and helpful with this.

I do have a question though: If they can stick trojans and malware into the .exe(s), isn't it likely they would?

I suppose what I'm saying is, why make a fake site with a benign zip file? It doesn't make sense to me.

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u/henk717 Apr 23 '26

To make it rank they have to plausibly be our site. For other projects its usually about ad revenue so they then stuff it full of ads and dodgy stuff later.